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The North Atlantic Coast. A Literary Field Guide.
. Illus: Nicholson, Trudy; Mirocha, Paul. Ed(S): St Antoine, Sara; Antoine, Sara
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Description for The North Atlantic Coast. A Literary Field Guide.
paperback. This collection tells about life along the shore from Nova Scotia to Delawareusing stories, poems, and excerpts from journals and memoirs. Illustrator(s): Nicholson, Trudy; Mirocha, Paul. Editor(s): St Antoine, Sara; Antoine, Sara. Series: Stories from Where We Live. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
Gathering the stories of people whose lives have adapted to the unique features of the North Atlantic coast, the book moves from Wampanoag Indians to eighteenth-century seafarers to contemporary teens. Readers are invited to feel the throb and pulse of the surf as Helen Keller felt it, track an otter through a southern New Hampshire winter, harvest blueberries as the Micmac Indians once did, and join a young boy as he tries to save a lobster from the cooking pot. The lives of fishermen and women, of sailors lost in the fog, of a whale trapped in a ... Read more
Gathering the stories of people whose lives have adapted to the unique features of the North Atlantic coast, the book moves from Wampanoag Indians to eighteenth-century seafarers to contemporary teens. Readers are invited to feel the throb and pulse of the surf as Helen Keller felt it, track an otter through a southern New Hampshire winter, harvest blueberries as the Micmac Indians once did, and join a young boy as he tries to save a lobster from the cooking pot. The lives of fishermen and women, of sailors lost in the fog, of a whale trapped in a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Condition
New
Series
Stories from Where We Live
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571316431
SKU
V9781571316431
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